Savoring Life
Please welcome Dorothy Johnson as my guest blogger this week. I met Dorothy a few years ago at the Hemingway-Pfeiffer writers’ retreat in Piggott, Arkansas, and we have been friends ever since. Her poetry and insights into human nature are delightful. Find Dorothy at http://reflectionsfromdorothy.blogspot.com/ SAVORING LIFE Chocolate has always been my comfort […]
Collections – Pigs, Pears, Poetry and Prose
I have friends that collect things. Pat collects Pears. Diane collects Hippopotamuses. Linda, Pigs. But what if you really don’t collect the things that others think you do? If you have one or two things, does that mean it’s a collection? How many do you have before it is? My mom has an ‘accidental’ collection – […]
…Made to be Broken
For 40 years my day job has been in an industry that is, by any standard, over-regulated. Regulations change on a daily basis, and I am constantly subject to audits and compliance reviews. I’m the enforcer, too, so I’m the bad guy when it comes to instruction and remanding. When I leave my office for the […]
I’d Rather Be…
As a teen, I never kept a clean room. My mother recounts how every Saturday she told me I couldn’t go anywhere with my friends until my room was clean. Two hours later she came to check on me and the bed was still unmade, the vacuum right where she left it, and I was sitting […]
Do You Like Contests?
Among writers, there are two attitudes about contests. One either loves them or abhors them. I was talking with one of the featured speakers at a conference, a novelist, and he looked down his nose at me and pronounced contests to be puny attempts at self-affirmation. Well, yes, there’s that. But personally I love the […]
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